Blotting device.



H. UEHLINGER. BLOTTING DEVICE. APPLICATION IILEI) DEC. 2, 1907.

960,603. Patented June 7,1910.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR W iYer/mzm Wfil'a'qger a ATTORNEY IIITED t i I i HERMAN UEHLINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BLOTTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 2, 1907.

Serial No. 404,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN UEHLINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blotting Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to blotting devices, and the same has for its object more particularly to provide a simple, eflicient and reliable device which may be readily attached to the hand of the user in such a way as to permit the user to have the free use of the fingers in writing.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a device which is so constructed that the same may be readily attached to the fingers of either hand, and is particularly intended for the use of bank clerks, bookkeepers and others who are required to frequently turn over pages in the course of making their entries, and thus avoid the necessity of laying down a blotter and picking it up to blot the writing before proceeding to make the next entry.

Further, my invention has for its object to provide a device which when not used in position and attached to the hand, may be used as an ordinary desk blotter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my invention consists in the novel details of construction and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved blotting device showing the same in position upon the hand of the user; Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the device partly in section and removed from the hand of the user; Fig. 3 is an end view thereof also partly in section showing the means for securing the attaching devices thereto.

In said drawings 10 designates the device as a whole comprising a curved flexible plate or support 11 made of sheet metal, celluloid, or other material, the same being circular in outline and provided at its opposite edges with depending lugs 12, 12 provided with apertures 13 13 therein. Upon the outer curved surface of said support 11 are disposed a plurality of layers of blotting paper 14: 14 which correspond in outline with the shape of the main body of said support, and are also provided at their opposite edges with projections 15, 15 which conform to the lugs 12, 12 of the support.

16, 16 denote fastening devices which extend from within through the apertures 13 13 in the lugs 12 12 and through the projeoting portions 15, 15 of the layers of blotting material arranged upon the outer surface of the support. The said fastening devices have their ends bent over and down upon the outer surface of the projecting portions 15 15 of the layers of blotting material 14. At their inner ends the fastening devices 16 16 are provided with eyes 17 17 in which are disposed attaching rings 18 18 which are split so as to permit of the same being readily secured to or removed from the fastening devices 17 17. In the construction herein shown one of the rings 18 18 is shown of larger diameter than the other ring, the larger of said rings being intended to be fitted upon the index and the smaller to be fitted upon the little finger of the hand, and as the device is reversible the attaching rings may be readily applied to the fingers of either hand.

In order to use the device it simply becomes necessary to slip the index and small fingers of the hand through the attaching rings 18, 18, and adjust the device on the back of the hand to the position indicated at Fig. 1. In this position the fingers are free to enga e the pen and permit the free use of the fingers for the purpose of writing, and at the same time to utilize the fingers for turning over the pages after the entries have been made thereon and blotted.

l/Vhile I have shown the device as of circular outline, it will be obvious that many other forms can be devised without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A. blotting device comprising a flexible support, depending lugs provided at the opposite edges of said support, a covering of absorbent material conformed to said support and lugs thereon, means traversing said lugs and absorbent covering for securing the same together, and rings secured to said securing means for attaching said device to the hand, substantially as specified.

Patented June 7, 1910.

2, A blotting device comprising a support of flexible material, lugs at the opposite edges thereof, a covering of absorbent material disposed upon said support and con- 5 formed thereto, fastening devices extending through said lugs, and said absorbent material, and rings secured to the inner ends of said fastening device, one of said rings being adapted for attachment to the little fin- 10 ger of the hand and the other of said rings being of larger diameter and adapted to receive the index finger of the hand, substan= ti'ally as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York this nine: 15 teenth day of November, nineteen hundred and seven.

HERMAN UEHLINGER.

Witnesses:

CONRAD A. DIETERIOH, J OSEPI-I Gr. QUINN, Jr. 

